 Thank you chief. Good afternoon. I'm Captain Jamie Frederick with the First Coast Guard District Response Department which oversees search and rescue operations under Rear Admiral John Mogher, the First Coast Guard District Commander. I'll provide a brief recap of our coordinated search efforts for the 21-foot submersible with five people on board along with providing an update on current search efforts and plans for the next 24 hours. On behalf of all the men and women of the United States Coast Guard and our search partners, we offer our most heartfelt thoughts and prayers for the five crew members, their families, and their loved ones. Our crews are working around the clock to ensure that we are doing everything possible to locate the Titan and the five crew members. Yesterday we stood up a unified command consisting of expertise from the United States Coast Guard, the United States Navy, Canadian Armed Forces and Coast Guard, and the Titan's parent company Ocean Gate Expedition. This is a complex search effort which requires multiple agencies with subject matter expertise and specialized equipment. While the U.S. Coast Guard has assumed the role of search and rescue mission coordinator, we do not have all of the necessary expertise and equipment required in the search of this nature. The unified command brings that expertise and additional capability together to maximize effort in solving this very complex problem. As a recap, on Sunday, the coordination command center in Boston received a report from the Canadian Expedition Vessel, a polar prince of an overdue 21-foot submarine Titan with five people on board. The Titan was attempting to dive on the wreck of the Titanic approximately 900 miles east of Cape Cod and 400 miles south of St. John's Newfoundland. Approximately one hour and 45 minutes into the scheduled dive, the polar prince lost all communication with the Titan. The polar prince conducted an initial search and then requested Coast Guard assistance. The U.S. Coast Guard in Boston assumed the responsibility of searching and rescue mission coordinator and immediately launched search assets. Since Sunday, the Coast Guard has coordinated search efforts with the U.S. and Canadian Coast Guard, International Guard aircraft and the Polar Prince, which have searched to combine 7,600 square miles in an area larger than the state of Connecticut. These search efforts have focused on both surface with C-130 aircraft searching by site and with radar and subsurface with P-3 aircraft were able to drop and monitor sonar buoys. To date, those search efforts have not yielded any results. Search efforts have continued through last night and today. Today, the vessel Deep Energy, 194-meter pipe laying vessel arrived on scene with underwater ROV capability. They have rendezvoused with the vessel Polar Prince and commenced an ROV dive at the last known of the position of the Titan and the approximate position of the Titanic wreck. That operation is currently ongoing. Additionally, a Canadian P-3 aircraft is currently conducting a six-hour search of the area and several C-130 aircraft and another P-3 are scheduled to fly this afternoon and this evening. The Canadian Coast Guard cutter or vessel, John Cabot, is scheduled to arrive later this evening and several other Canadian Coast Guard vessels and the Coast Guard cutter Sycamore are en route. Additionally, the U.S. Coast Guard has the U.S. Navy's SUPSAL supervisor salvaging diving command is working with U.S. transportation command to bring additional assets to the search area. These more capable assets will be staged at a St. John's for further transport to the search area. There are also several private vessels, research vessels, ROV capabilities that are making preparations to join the efforts. So I want to reiterate this is a very complex search and the unified team is working around the clock to bring all available assets and expertise to bear as quickly as possible in an effort to solve this very complex problem. We'll continue to provide updates as they become available and again our thoughts and prayers are with the crew and the families and their loved ones. We will provide unwavering effort as we continue the search and I think at this time we'll open it up and take a few questions. So each of the ROVs, so that's kind of a vague question, right? ROVs have different capability. It's our understanding the current ROV that is deployed at the site now has some limited capability. It has a camera on board but again each of those is different and we'll be gathering more information as that operation goes on through the day. So right now all of our efforts are focused on finding the sub. What I will tell you is we have a group of of our nation's best experts in the unified command and if we get to that point those experts will be looking at what the next course of action is. So first of all it's an estimate, right? Because we know from the data we were using as a starting point was 96 hours. We know at this point we're approximately about 40-41 hours. Yes, correct. Yeah I'm not sure of the exact technical piece of that. We know there's about there's about 40 hours of breathable air left based on that initial report. Again that was just the initial report based on 96 hours from when the vessel I don't know the answer to that question. What I will tell you is we will do everything in our power to to effect a rescue. Again it's going to depend on if the ROV finds something it's going to depend on what they find what what needs to be what steps need to be taken next and really that is for the experts within the unified command to take a look at and then and then decide what the best course of action is. Right now our effort and our focus is on searching with what we know. When as soon as we receive the report on Sunday evening we immediately launch search efforts. We flew assets that evening and we've continued constant surface and air asset searches since that point. Go ahead. Well it's a this is a complex search and it's complex for a variety of reasons. We're you know you're talking about a search area that's 900 miles east of Cape Cod 400 miles south of St. John's so logistically speaking it's hard to bring assets to bear it takes time it takes coordination and then we're dealing with you know two pieces of you're dealing with a surface search and a subsurface search and frankly that makes it an incredibly complex operation. Captain will the Navy will the US Navy or the Canadian Navy be able to get salvage equipment on time before the air runs out? Obviously getting salvage equipment on scene is a top priority. Unified Command is working through that to prioritize what equipment we can get there. There are ongoing operations right now via the US Navy and Transcom to get equipment staged in St. John's and to get it on scene. I can't give you an exact timeline on when that's going to happen. What I can tell you is there is a full press full court press effort to get equipment on scene as quickly as we can. No so some of the equipment that's coming is coming from the east coast but again we're talking about very heavy equipment. It's a complicated transport operation but the best professionals in the world are working it and that's US Transcom. Yeah so like I said there are some there are several civilian ships that have offered services heading that way. There are additional Coast Guard cutters. We hope to have a Canadian Coast Guard cutter on scene this evening. We hope that they may be able to assume on scene commander. Polar Prince has been doing a great job with those duties but if we could take some of that from them that would be good. But your question about specific equipment I'm not going to get into talking about specific equipment. Frankly I'm not an expert on what that equipment is but again I can tell you we have experts in the unified command that are going through that prioritizing what we need and then how we get it on scene. Can you tell us about the personnel from Boston? From Boston specifically. So Boston where Boston plays a role is the command center the rescue and coordination center is here in Boston. The aircraft that are coming in are coming from different locations but the command structure is being worked out of Boston. I think we have time for two more questions. I don't want to speak about if the Coast Guard is ever. I would tell you it's a unique operation. It's a challenging operation but right now we're focused on putting everything we can at it and searching as hard as we can and getting the assets out there as quickly as we can. So there are some additional assets with ROVs. There is one asset that is working to get on scene with a decompression chamber. So those are all pieces that are coming together and we're working those logistical challenges to get them there and I think we'll take one more. Well I can't tell you exactly what it would look like. I would tell you that we are out there we're searching we wouldn't be doing this. We wouldn't be searching and putting all effort out there. I think that if the sub is located that's a question that then the the experts need to look at what is the best course of action for recovering the sub but I think it's going to depend on that particular situation and if we encounter that. Sir is it true that the British offered assistance and they were told we don't need your assistance at this point? No I'm not aware of that. Again what I would tell you though is that the Unified Command is working through prioritizing. We know that there's equipment out there that can be brought to the scene. The Unified Command is working through prioritizing what equipment we need and then how we get it there. And the Prince you're also responding to the ship as well? Yes that's my understanding correct and I think we're gonna wrap it there. Yep thank you.